Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] merge some xen bits into qemu

[Samuel Thibault]

Gerd Hoffmann, le Wed 06 Aug 2008 15:24:39 +0200, a écrit :
> > You forgot the _test_ stage.  You are basically asking us to replace our
> > well-tested implementation with your implementation, that's quite a
> > move.
> 
> Sure, and more will follow.

But by having it merged into just upstream qemu you won't magically get
Xen people actually test it, so it would be mostly dead code.

> Pretty much like upstreaming the xen support into the linux kernel.

There's a big difference here.  The upstream linux kernel merge won't be
merged back to the linux-2.6.18 tree.  And people do test upstream xen
support.

Samuel